Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia houses one of the finest Indigenous Australian art collections in the world, rivaling many of the collections held in Australia. It is the only museum outside Australia dedicated solely to Indigenous Australian art. The director of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is Nici Cumpston OAM (Barkandji).

The collection includes many important paintings of the Papunya Tula movement and Arnhem Land artists and comprises more than 3600 objects in a variety of media, including bark and acrylic paintings, sculpture, photography, prints and artifacts, most dating from 1940 onward. The museum has two gallery spaces where exhibitions drawn from the collection as well as works on loan are on view. The exhibitions change every 6 months to a year.

The museum is located at Pantops Farm, a university-owned property once owned by Thomas Jefferson in the Pantops neighborhood of Charlottesville, Virginia.